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Trudi

Girls' name

Strength

Trudi has been given to 3,215 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1965, with 140 recorded.

Babies named Trudi, 2022

1 in 677,000

Trudi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trudi: meaning, origin, and history

Strength

Germanic languages

What Trudi means

Trudi means “strength”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Trudi is used in German and English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtʁuː.di/ and /ˈtɹu.di/ for Trudi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Trudi → Gertrude. The family’s meaning is “spear + strength”, recorded in English with the source elements gaizaz and þrūþiz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

In some cases, a 20th-century spelling of Trudy; in other cases borrowed from German Trudi.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Trudi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Trudi is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Trudi comes through German Trudi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gertrude.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,215 girls were recorded with the name Trudi between 1938 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 140 in 1965; its best national rank was #845 in 1965.

How common is Trudi?

Trudi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trudi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trudi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trudis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trudi was born before 1962 — so the typical Trudi is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.84%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,729
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (1,115).

Is Trudi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1965 (140)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#845
1965

Spellings of Trudi

Trudi is not the most common spelling — Traci is, with 43.3% against Trudi's 2.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Trudi is used

Across 1910–2025, Trudi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 89,246 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 50,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 50,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 50,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in 100,000
  7. 7Idaho1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Trudi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trudi around the world

Where Trudi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Scotland
    1974–1994
    #629
    in 1994
  • Ireland
    1971–2007
    #842
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1951–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Trudi

People whose public names include Trudi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Trudi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Trudi. Linked forms have their own page here.

TrudeTrudyTrudieGertrudGertrudeGertrudisGertiGertyGescheKerttuTrudlaGertrúdGertraudGertrudaGertrúdaGjertrudGertruidaGeertruidaGeirþrúður

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Trudi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#845
1965
Peak year
1965
140 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
3,215
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trudi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Trudi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Trudi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MerriShielaCherriFondaGerriDeeannDawneMartyCaronDelindaMeriDorinda

Sibling names for Trudi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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